Italy Medieval Village Life

Paciano – One of Italy’s Most Beautiful Medieval Villages

For whom the bell tolls They toll for me. And for everyone in this amazingly well preserved hilltop town that time forgot. I had one very specific ‘must’ on my wish list when deciding where we would relocate our lives.  I wanted to live where I can hear the bells ring. Where the telling of …

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Learning to Live in Italian Lockdown

As the streets empty, business doors are bolted shut and silence descends upon the once buzzing city and town centers, all Italians – young, old, single, married, in love, indifferent – hunker down to pass the hours, days and weeks in total lockdown. We are all in limbo…our lives on hold. Caught between ‘before’ and …